INDEX
572
importing loaded 557
loading 285
loading external 350
loading older versions 351
switch statement 70
symbols in regular expressions 191
synchronous errors 167
syntactic keywords 62
syntax 59
system, determining user’s 496
System.setClipboard() method 560
T
tab character 132
target node or phase 231
target property 234
Telnet client example 486
terminating statements 61
ternary operators 64
test() method 202
text
about 355
anti-aliasing 367
assigning formats 362
available types 357
capturing input 360
common tasks 356
concepts and terms 356
displaying 356
formatting 362, 369
formatting ranges of 365
manipulating 359
replacing 136
restricting input 361
saving to Clipboard 497
scrolling 358, 359
selecting 360
sharpness 367
static 252, 368
thickness 367
text editors 23
text fields
disabling IME for 503
dynamic 356
HTML in 363
images in 358
img tag and security 549
input 356
modifying 357
scrolling text 358
static 356
text line metrics 356, 374
TextEvent class 230
TextField class 230, 252
TextFormat class 362
TextLineMetrics class 374
TextSnapshot class 368
this keyword 93, 94, 95, 238
throw statement 172
time formats 123
time intervals 125
time unit values 123
time zones 123, 125
timeout limit 512
Timer class
about 125
monitoring playback 447
timer events 125
timers 125
timing functions 126
toLowerCase() method 138
toString() method
about 134
Array class 151
Event class 235
toUppercase() method 138
traits object 112
Transform class
transform property 314
transformation matrixes. See Matrix
class
translate() method 313
translating matrixes 313
try..catch..finally statements 171
twips 513
type annotations 45, 49
type checking
compile-time 48
run-time 50
type conversion 55, 56, 222
type mismatches 49
type property (Event class) 233
typed arrays 146
types. See data types
U
UIEventDispatcher class 229
uint class, casting 56
uint data type 54
unary operators 64, 66
undefined 34, 54, 55, 146
Unicode characters 130
Uniform Resource Identifier
(URI) 39
union() method 312
Universal Time (UTC) 123
unordered arrays 152
unshift() method 147
untyped variables 34, 47
upcasting 50
upload() method 546, 556
uploading files 480, 484, 556
URIs 39
URL encoding 463
URLLoader class
about 462
loading XML data 215, 224
security and 555
when restricted 546
URLLoader constructor 463
URLLoader.dataFormat
property 466
URLLoader.load() method 463
URLLoaderDataFormat.VARIABLE
S466
URLRequest instance 463
URLRequest.contentType
property 463
URLRequest.data property 463
URLRequest.method property 463
URLRequestMethod.GET 464
URLRequestMethod.POST 464
URLs of loaded objects 286
URLStream class 546, 555
URLVariables class 462
URLVariables.decode() method 463
use namespace directive 41, 43, 114
useCapture parameter,
addEventListener() method 240
user input
about 450
common tasks 450
concepts and terms 450
user interactions, managing
focus 455
user’s system, determining at run
time 496
user-selected text, capturing 360
useWeakReference parameter 154

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